Key Performance Chronology
1982-1991
Traditional musical theatre, acting, and dance productions (school, camp, university, community theatre)
1991-1992
Minneapolis regional theatre and film
1993
CBGB Gallery 313 Improv Group
1994-1995
Actors Equity Association (AES) summer stock apprenticeship at the historic Barn Theatre, Augusta, MI
First performance at Theatre for the New City (Celebration Reclaimed, Arthur Sainer) and the start of a 25+-year-old association!
1995-1996
Birth of original work while obtaining Masters of Art in Contemporary Theatre Practice at the University of Essex, UK
Happy Birthday to Me
Salome Jones
Ladies Who Go Bump in the Night (full-length “cabaret performance art” solo show)
1997-1998
The Theater of Operations: The Cheerleader and the Truth
Rosy Spade - Museum of Fetishized Identities with Guillermo Gomez Peña
Member of the Cunning Linguists performance poetry group
1999-2000
Cave of Knowing
Annie Fanny Get Your Gun (continuation of “cabaret performance art”)
Human Buffet performance feedings and installations
Butterfly Dream (first group butoh dance performance)
Censored I
2001
Salon Apartment Series:
Amy Abrahams Performs Preparation and Presentation/Strip Salon
La Guapa Gorging Geisha, Ciao/Chow Salon
Sgt. Anna Conda and Combat Confessions/Closet Salon
Moving Boundaries, Moving Bodies
Reaction Tactics
2002
The Story of a Phallus Woman (full-length “cabaret performance art” solo show)
Censored II
2003
Hungry Jack and Spamela Anderson performance installation and the Feast Fairy feedings
Universal Longings
2004
War Haikus, Haikus for War
Yellow Creeping Paper (excerpt from FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
2005-2006
Water Cure (excerpt from FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
La Chanteuse d’Opera
Penetrating Empathy – Cilla Vee Life Arts
Neuvo Butoh Harpa - a performance collaboration with harpist Mia Theodoratus
Sickness
Madam May
The Elements
2007
Loss
Mask in the Mirror
Butoh Bodybuilding Baby
2008
Post Modern Chic
Moving Points of View (collaboration with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
Evolution Arts Residency
I Believe
Push-Pull
Sea Herself: The Devolution of a Beauty Queen
2009
MOMA a Go-Go (collaboration with artist Julie Harvey)
Bibi Brazil and the Quest for the Perfect Vagina (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology)
How Shifra Lost Her Head (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology)
Cutting Edge (collaboration with artist Jef Campion)
Faun
2010
Global Warming (collaboration with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
Valley of the Moms (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology)
Tomato Hands Knife Feet
2011
Valley of the Moms (excerpt from Escaping Biology)
I Dream of Colored Inks (collaboration with sculptor Sylvia Nagy)
Well-Tempered Exposition (cast member in work by performance artist and curator Pablo Helguera)
2012
Red
2013
The Pink Room (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology)
Warhorse
2014
The Suitcase / The Sad Man Series
2015
Kinesthesia Bones
The Lily
2016
Coney Island Butoh and Beyond Festival group performance
What’s in the Closet (Writers in Performance, Tribeca PAC)
2017
Magic Touch self-video performance (excerpt from FOR HER OWN GOOD: Chronicles of Women and Madness)
2018
Butoh Flamenco (Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival)
2019
Eyeworks (self-performance series for the camera)
Tres Chic: The Beauty Borg
A Chance Encounter - Sad Man Series
2020
Self-video performances
Something for Your Mind
Almost - Sad Man Series
Rolling
Sweet Desire
2021
Princess Mythology (excerpt from solo show Escaping Biology, Irondale ON WOMEN festival)
Endlessly Performing Art - a year-long international video art project
Becoming Human - Butoh Breath Project (video)
Select self-video performances
Candy: A Day in the Life
Nailing Beauty (a putoh performance)
Bifurcated Bonnie (a putoh performance)
Montgomery Imrovizations
Butoh Bodybuilder series
Choked (UNFIX NYC festival)
Maybe – Sad Man Series
The Estudios (ongoing)
Not Broken (live)
Tia Maria (live)
2022
Select self-video performances
What is Art?
Inertia
Line (from Shame on Me)